Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Burning

This is me trying to sort out my fiery emotions. Kind of hard when they gang up. My original intent was to find a release for my emotional intensity. I was creating this piece at the time the London riots were beginning, but I had no idea they were occurring until 3 days later.

I'm having a lot of trouble figuring this one out. I was actually intensely angry when I was working on this piece. Now it is almost like looking at a firepit after it has been put out. You remember the warmth and the smoke and maybe you burned your finger or something, but now there is just a black spot and some ashes and the acrid smell that something burned here.

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What are you afraid of?

Zombie bites are bite marks indicating that you have been infected by the undead. Zombie bites are indicators that you will soon join the living dead and seek out the flesh of the living. It only takes one bite. I'm not telling you anything new though. If you're here, you've probably already been bitten.

This blog is filled with my bites, the chunks of fear that lurk within me given the form of fiction, drawings, digital manipulations, paintings, and any other medium that allows me to get the beasties out of my head. I hope you find something here that you like, dislike, fear, something that makes you unsettled, disturbed, scared, or gives you that involuntary shiver, something that you'll carry with you when you leave. If you have a lingering fear, or a pernicious dark thought, or better yet a nightmare, my job here is done.

I also want you to return, to look again into the dark with me and find out what scares you most. It's easier when you're not alone. Come with me into the dark. It's only shadows. And when we're done you can always turn the light back on, right? What are you afraid of?